Rough title…but these are some great quotes I have picked up over the last 6 months or so that have helped to transform my journey to freedom…
“We’ve got to stop comparing our insides to other people’s outsides.”
~ Nancy Ortberg
“We’ve got to stop comparing our insides to other people’s outsides.”
~ Nancy Ortberg
“You are an embodied soul.”
~ Scott Scruggs
~ Scott Scruggs
“You have to be a good steward of your pain.”
~ Scott Dudley via Jesse Rice
~ Scott Dudley via Jesse Rice
If you’re single you’re “more like Jesus”!
~ Lindsay James
~ Lindsay James
“Whole purpose of the library is to take books out.”
I.E. the Christian life isn’t about staying on the sidelines,
within the church walls…but to be a “used book” out in the world.
~ John Ortberg
“Most really good ideas will first have a death before being resurrected.”
~ Nancy Ortberg
~ Nancy Ortberg
“That’s how love works. It can’t be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves room for the other to decide. God says yes, we can have what we want, because love wins.”
~ Rob Bell
~ Rob Bell
“Be a good student of yourself.”
~ Nancy Ortberg
~ Nancy Ortberg
“Making mistakes and being incredible aren’t mutually exclusive. In fact – as a parent, friend, lover, Jesus follower – I think what makes someone incredible is how they respond/act/recover/learn from/change/teach others about their mistakes. A perfect person isn’t incredible. They’re full of poo.” ~Tim Kaye
“God isn’t making ALL new things…
He’s making all things NEW.”
~ Scott Scruggs
“God isn’t making ALL new things…
He’s making all things NEW.”
~ Scott Scruggs
“We’ve got to lean into conflict – even though it is counter intuitive. And we’ve got to give each other permission to get it [in handling conflict] wrong in order to get it right.”
~ Nancy Ortberg
~ Nancy Ortberg
“God’s address is at the end of your rope.”
~ Dallas Willard
~ Dallas Willard
“God is in the business of bringing redemption out of evil.”
~ John Ortberg
“You cannot do or be anything you want to be.
But you can become all that God created and intended for you to be.”
~ Jesse Rice
~ John Ortberg
“You cannot do or be anything you want to be.
But you can become all that God created and intended for you to be.”
~ Jesse Rice
In order to hear God, we’ve go to
“ruthlessly eliminate hurry” from our lives.
~ Dallas Willard
“ruthlessly eliminate hurry” from our lives.
~ Dallas Willard
“The Mission has a Church –
not the Church has a mission….
To seek and save the lost doesn’t mean
to get a soul into heaven…
not the Church has a mission….
To seek and save the lost doesn’t mean
to get a soul into heaven…
but to get a soul back into the Mission.”
~ Scott Scruggs
“First we deceive ourselves,
and then we convince ourselves that we are not deceiving ourselves.”
~ Lewis Smedes
“First we deceive ourselves,
and then we convince ourselves that we are not deceiving ourselves.”
~ Lewis Smedes
“Look for the options in your thinking.”
“Chaos has meaning, fear is growth waiting to happen and pain gives birth to hope.”
~ The Joy Gal
“If you want to walk on water, you first have to get out of the boat.”
~ John Ortberg
“Everyone needs recovery, and some of us are blessed
with a level of dysfunction that makes this need obvious and compelling.”
~ Teresa J. McBean
“God always sees us in light of what He intended us to be,
and He always seeks to restore us to that design.”
~ Randy C. Alcorn
“Everyone needs recovery, and some of us are blessed
with a level of dysfunction that makes this need obvious and compelling.”
~ Teresa J. McBean
“God always sees us in light of what He intended us to be,
and He always seeks to restore us to that design.”
~ Randy C. Alcorn
“Do you want to get well?”
~ Jesus Christ
